PracticesThus, through a gnostic element already within the Jewish Church, and the cultured, powerful gnostic influences in the pagan world, nascent Christianity was like the traveller from Jerusalem to Jericho who fell among thieves PracticesStill more important is Petrarch%u2019s description of th
BiggestHe thus became a mediator whose sympathies with his fellow-men on the one hand, and whose merits with the gods on the other fitted him for the mediatorial office of bearing the prayers and wants of mortals to the presence of the gods BiggestAnd these songs of degrees begin after the one hundr
AdvancesAnd dipped an olive branch in holy dew.%u2019 AdvancesWe are in the habit of spitting, for instance, as a preservative from epilepsy, or, in other words, we repel contagion thereby; in a similar manner, too, we repel fascinations, and the evil presages attendant upon meeting a person who is
‘Tax-Fairness’%u201CWe must make, indeed, large allowance for the intellectual trials of an age of transition when it was not given to every one to see his way between the demands urged upon an intelligent faith by the traditions of a brilliant past on the one hand, and the intimations o
ceremonialRoom 100, Bible House, ceremonialChrist%u2019s Resurrection and Sunday. ceremonialIn the earliest times, therefore, it was quite simple, so far as regards the absence of images or temples, but it was at the same time exceedingly complicated and burdened with all kinds of ceremonies and sym
VintageAbandoning, as they did, the more essential of the supernatural truths of revelation, they were virtually and in effect revivals of paganism, and family likenesses may accordingly be traced among the older speculations current in the schools of heathen philosophy VintageThe festival was protr
MayThis he pours with a ladle into the hands of the expectant crowds, who either drink it with avidity, or sprinkle it reverentially over their persons May%u201CThus the nature of the waters, sanctified by the Holy One, itself conceived withal the power of sanctifying MayAnd let it be thus if they h
/ct.Opilius says that serpents will do the same if a person spits into their open mouth; and Salpe tells us that when any part of the body is asleep the numbness may be got rid of by the person spitting into his lap, or touching the upper eyelid with his spittle /ct.His mother had been an infe
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